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Just when you think food innovation is at a standstill, a hero comes along and creates a truly beautiful mashup. After seeing Jimmy Fallon describe his imagined perfect breakfast - the PanWaffle - Erin McDowell of Food52 set out to make his dream a reality.

ShowHopping uses data from Last.fm to map out upcoming concerts and live shows on Google Maps. Users can search by location and radius, or have the browser give their current location, and the web app will map out all live shows in the area within a defined set of dates.

Depending on your temperament, you'll have a different reaction to seeing a map of literally everywhere you've taken your iPhone (or 3G iPad) since you bought it. You might think it's a neat hack to gain some perspective on your far-ranging life. Or you might wonder why Apple has been keeping this information all along.

Parkopedia is aptly named — its database contains locations, and often pricing and other details, on 15 million parking spaces in 20 countries. So if you need to make a list of three go-to parking spots for a trip, it's a great place to start.

It's interesting to look at trending topics on Twitter to see what's new and has captured public interest, but Twitter is a big place with millions of tweets flying around. Trendsmap drills down through the data to see local trends.

There's nothing we like better than a good mash-up (here's a couple of random examples). But when it comes to services that integrate data from multiple locations and draw their own conclusions, it's always best to apply a little healthy cynicism.

It must be said that Twitter/voicemail mashup Pockets has great potential for spammy misuse. Used properly, though, it's a pretty novel way to send a voicemail message to someone you know through Twitter but don't have a phone number for.

As soon as Wolfram Alpha launched as a computational knowledge engine, avid searchers hacked up tools to combine its results with standard Google searches. The Goofram site is a clean-looking site that does all that mashing for you.

From the thin files of the Decently Useful Facebook Apps Dept.: MapMotive puts your Facebook friends on a Google Map, making it easy to visit acquaintances while travelling, or just marvel at your social spread.

If you're interested in panoramic photography, viewAt combines a panoramic maker with a Google Maps mashup so you can not only create interactive panoramas but geotag them and share them with the world.

If you've been playing around with Microsoft's Live Mesh syncing technology and tried it on your Windows Mobile device, then Flickr2Mesh, a simple application to download photos from your Flickr account onto your hard drive or mobile phone, might be of interest. As Aussie Live Mesh guru Angus Logan points out on his blog, the code could also be used as the basis for an application giving you access to your photos on multiple devices. If you want to mass-download Flickr shots but aren't ready for Live Mesh yet, check out previously mentioned Flump. Flickr2Mesh

The new Sydney Sidetracks project from the ABC puts an intriguing twist on the Google Maps mash-up genre, linking historic video, audio and pictures to their locations online. Content on offer includes early images from Port Jackson in 1821, as well as more recent events such as the Hilton Hotel bombing. As well as being accessible on the site, you can download a version for use on your mobile phone, ideal for a walking tour of the inner-Sydney streets. With luck, we'll see similar efforts for other cities in the future (the site structure suggests other locations could easily be added).Sydney Sidetracks